Where All Ladders Start
With an unswerving focus, in poems of impressive agility and depth, O’Sullivan confronts, explores and shapes the often uncomfortable but always tender truths contained within the restless, all-too fallible human heart.
In poems that speak of family and memory, love and longing, Where All Ladders Start honours the connections that persist through time and in the face of all that life throws at us.
O'Sullivan extends the range of her voice and her language in this superb new collection. Her precise observations are still here, but now flourish in family portraits, memory, dislocations and home-coming.
Poetry is an X-ray of the heart – and for heart we can read ‘soul’ or ‘mind’ or ‘spirit’-- and Maeve O’Sullivan is not afraid to show her heart. She understands that this is Where All Ladders Start.